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[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 99 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Translating for him must be a cakewalk. You only have to know, what, 25-30 words at most?

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me but the PRESIDENT knows many words, he is like a real big word book. One time a tall book, strong book, tears flowing down its pages said: sir, you are the man that knows most words of all, the wordest. It's true, it's true.

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[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 129 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I've heard it's actually really difficult, because a good translator doesn't do it literally.

They're supposed to say something which gets the same meaning across, which often isnt what you'd get just by translating each word.

That leaves people translating trump with a problem: you can't generally turn his long rambling speeches into something with a clearly understandable meaning without putting words into his mouth, or summarising so aggressively that you'd only say a couple of sentences for every few minutes of speech

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 83 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I've read that deaf or non-English speakers don't really get to understand just how stupid trump really is because it's impossible to accurately translate his nonsense babbling.

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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It must have been his first time. Trump with teleprompter used, it won't take that long. Trump with no teleprompter, buckle up and settle in because it is going to be a long one.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Schiess is really hard not to guess the meaning of too...

Like, doesn't matter what else came before it, end a sentence with "es ist schiesse" and everybody gonna know you think something is shit

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 85 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Or less if nature takes her course.

[–] linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I can only hope more disgruntled citizens will attempt to make that timeframe even shorter.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Be the change you wish for!

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And result in president Vance? Nope, absolutely nope.

[–] linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I never said they'd stop with Drumpf.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 40 points 4 months ago

Ah, nature has so many mysterious ways.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 118 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Boring speech from a boring public speaker. You can tell from how he rambles he’s an old, boring man

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

It’s even worse because he thinks he’s charming, so he’s smug and cringe while being old and boring.

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[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 224 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Simultaneous translation is a difficult job. And then he has to translate words without any meaning. That's tough. I feel for him.

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